The recordings that exposed football match-fixing

Two men have been found guilty of conspiring to fix English football matches
following an investigation by The Telegraph

12:15PM BST 17 Jun 2014

Three men have been found guilty of conspiring to fix English football matches following an investigation by the Telegraph.

Singaporean businessmen Chann Sankaran, 33, and Krishna Sanjey Ganeshan, 43, along with footballer Michael Boateng, 22, have been convicted of conspiracy to commit bribery following a trial at Birmingham Crown Court.

Boateng is a former player with Conference South team Whitehawk FC.

Deliberations continue in relation a second footballer, Moses Swaibu, 23, also a former Whitehawk player.

The jurors earlier cleared Hakeem Adelakun, also of Whitehawk, of the same charge. He had told the jury he knew nothing about any plot to fix matches.

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Sankaran and Ganeshan's scam centered on plans to fix matches in the lower leagues.

The court heard Sankaran and Ganeshan were "central" figures in the scam.

Boateng was a "willing recruit" the prosecution said.

The UK plot was uncovered following an undercover investigation by The Telegraph in which a Singaporean fixer was secretly filmed claiming to be able to fix English matches for £70,000.

The information contained in the Telegraph dossier was passed on to theNational Crime Agency(NCA) – the British version of the FBI – which launched its own investigations, culminating in Tuesday’s convictions.

The Telegraph how now been given exclusive access to the NCA's evidence, obtained during an undercover surveillance operation, including video footage and audio recordings.

They reveal plans by the two men to fix matches in the lower leagues. In one secretly recorded conversation, Sankaran says on the phone to an unnamed contact: "Ok you call them now and ask can they lose. First half one-zero, second half one-zero.

"Yeah, no, because first you see ..., no no that's fine, that's the reason why I asked them to, if they,... No no no because first half, ah, you see they just control the ball until 20 minutes, then really they need to let goals... A goal. So they only got time playing 25 Minutes to er release the goal."